The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-11-09

land lu the world, where the velvet
carpet of nutritious molquit reaches
out in uubrokcn beauty mile after
mi o., far beyond the range OF human
vision, until the mind is bewildcrcd
in its effort to grasp such an expansc
OF fertility unoccupicd, Thirty
thousaLd square miles Of territory
/ which na- for generations occupied a
/ place in the public mind AS al arid
wat OF shifting sand whitencd by
/ blecchng bones of adventurous plo-
neers and hardy forty ninera, has
SUDDENLY, 10y the wonderful march Of
/ railroad, been revealed to the home
seekers of the north, east, and south,
a. one of the most inviting iiclds now
unocDupied Four thousand feet
above the seq, malaria and disease are
swept before its perpetual brcezcs
and fail to hud hiding place. So
/ favored hy nature this region seems
destined to be g. high y favored by
men The Atkinson Topeka and santa
/ lc now have q road completed in a
souhwe-tcrly direction to the center
Of the Panhandle in Carson county.
I The Fort Worth n Denver at right
angie 10 this uns from the southeast
~ the northwest corncr-thc Frisco
are surveying direct acros. it from
east to west about through the center,
while the Rock Island divides it north
and south all these are now in course
of active construction and are
Accomplished facts, while as
not remote contingencies the
Arkansas Pass aud the Central
have their lines projected through
the entire length of the terri tory.
With three trunk lines to the east
and north, a. markets for beet cattle,
and tho Denver penetrating the ran
yes of the northwestern territory,
there must be town here which Will
at once spring to the trout Is the
great cattle mart of AmeriGa; control-
ing not alone the cattle trade of
| Texas. but also OF New and Old Mex
lco But its greatness shall not be
confined to the stock business. Al
most everything that has been tried
in the way OF agriculture has proved
success. Oats, barley and sorghum
arc now raised in large quantities by
the few settlers; beets, turnips, pota-
toes anG every vegetable of the bulb
variety, "a well as watermelons,
pumpkins and whatever grows on Il
vino, rival those of the best irrigated
lands of California. The creeks and
ravincs abound with al excellent
grape-far superlorto the mustang
which makes good wine.
The tide of immigration whichhas
been lowing in au unbrOkcn stream
into Kansas will not have to be
changed, but will naturally pass on
into this section, only with increasing
it approaches the mill-race.
While for several years the country
has been compal atively dry, yet last
year the seasons were much more
favorable than further south, through
central Texas, and this year have
been far better than in Kansas, and
the drouthstrlcken country north
This has created n strong desire all
through Kansas TO seek it, and AS
fast AS the people of that
state can dispose of their mortgaged
and tax ridden homes they are seek
ing this new colorado. But one
thing is to be done to secure aud fix
the heaviest immigration that ever
came to Texas or any other state
that is for the state authorities to ap-
yralso aud offer for ale the school
lands rs fast as the demands will re-
quire and we have too much conf
donce i'll our excellent governor and
the administration to doubt but that
every energy within their power viii
be eNerted to supply the demand-or
to fear that any policy calculated to
retard the growth of any portion of
the state will be for an instant enter
tanned. Along the Atchison road the
Immigration is largely from Kansas
and brings with it considerable
sprinkling OF Kansas political senti.
ment, while we have little fear of
northern rcpublicauism long survly-
ing In our southern cline, they must
be dieted upon good wholesome
honest democratic administration of
law or we will lind districts III the
north AS strongely republican as the
Senegambrian district in the south.